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December 11, 2013 10:08 pm GMT

The End Of Subsidized Phones Could Be Near

tumblr_lxqyysSSQ61qlvp8so1_500-300x225For almost a decade and a half, mobile customers - and Americans in particular - have enjoyed a certain economic perk: phone subsidies from the major carriers. This meant you could, on sign-up, get a very expensive phone for at most a few hundred dollars and, as an incentive to hang around, upgrade that phone every few years. These subsidies seemed as God-given as freedom of speech and apple pie, but they may be on their way out.

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